Susan Estrich: Oops! I Commented on the Wrong Mosque

NewsBusters ^ | August 21, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

The dog ate my homework.

That's not much of an excuse but at least it is better than the one Susan Estrich came up with as to one of the reasons why she changed her mind on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy. Estrich claims she thought they were talking about another mosque when Fox News asked her to comment on the mosque controversy. What other mosque? Anybody even slightly knowledgeable about current events will now instantly think "Ground Zero Mosque" when they hear about a mosque controversy. Not Susan Estrich. Here she is delivering her laughable excuse:

Recently, I found myself on Fox News defending the "Ground Zero mosque" before I'd fully thought it through. Truth be told, when someone called to set up the "hit," I thought they were talking about another mosque project I'd heard about on the radio. So there I was, invoking the First Amendment, arguing that our enemy is terrorism, and that the only way we would ever win that fight is by gaining the support of the overwhelming majority of Muslims who are not our enemies and who we need to respect as friends. All true.

[bankwalker]

Does she still have the voice of Charlie Rangel?

[tioga]

Can you imagine what these people talk about, and how they talk, in the confines of their own Brie and Chablis fests in the Hamptons?

Which is why they do not understand Sarah Palin and so many of us DO.

[Zakeet]

All Mosques look alike!

Yep ... they sure do ... sept this new one near ground zero

[esquirette]

I completely get it.